College is a time to grow, learn, and prepare yourself for a career. You'll go to classes, earn a degree, and spend a lot of time studying. But in between classes, tests, your work schedule, and homework, you'll want to fill the rest of your time with fun activities. Here are 35ideas for things that will make your college experience outside of classes memorable.

1. Paint, draw, color, or do some other type of craft.

2. Volunteer!

3. Have a game night. Pick a night every other week, and get together to play board games or video games.

4. Watch Gilmore Girls (again). Or pick another favorite tv show to curl up on the couch and watch together with your roommates.

5. Go to the beach, even if it’s too cold to swim.

6. Take a fun class you are interested in, that isn’t related to your major. For me, that was a photography class where I was able to learn how to develop my own prints after taking pictures with a film camera.

7. Create joint Spotify playlists with your roommate(s) and blast the music through your apartment or dorm.

8. Bake cookies (or cake, or brownies)!

9. Twin with one of your roommates.

10. Or match with both of them.

11. Study hard and reap the benefits.

12. Read new books.

13. Reorganize your [massive] t-shirt collection.

14. Hair-braiding chains. The best way to bond with the ones you meet at orientation.

15. Hang out with your mom, and become best friends with her. She misses you while you’re at school, no matter how far away you are from home.

16. Learn the lyrics of an entire rap song. I learned most of Can't Hold Us by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.

17. Attend a concert together.

18. Play Just Dance until you can't stand up anymore. It's a dance party and a workout in one!

19. Explore your college town with your roommates.

20. Have family dinners, and each of you can contribute something to the meal.

21. Go to a midnight premiere of a movie. Complete with popcorn and candy.

22. Figure out what sports you are all interested in, and play it together! My roommates and I are fans of extreme ping pong and also tennis.

23. Go kayaking with a friend! (Or do something else adventurous that neither of you have done.)

24. Plan a trip where you fly somewhere you've never been and explore. Perhaps even to visit an out of state student at their home.

25. Go ice skating. Especially when your roommate has never been. It'll be a blast.

26. Attend a formal dance with your friends.

27. Take a series of Photobooth pictures and make them into a collage.

28. If you don't like sports, attend a sporting event on campus, just for the experience. You might like it more than you think.

29. Create a wall of actors and celebrities that you think are attractive for your dorm.

30. Get doughnuts (Krispy Kreme is our favorite).

31. Pet-sit for your roommates.

And send the pet parent Snapchats of their child.

32. Take pictures of the campus wildlife.

33. Watch a rainstorm from the ground in the middle of the night. And take a bunch of pictures, failing a few times before you succeed (yes this was one of the best ones).

34. Obtain photo evidence when the dining hall food is a fail.

35. Laugh until your stomach hurts, until tears are streaming down your face. Because the friends you meet in college will be your friends for life.